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Marquis De Sade Inspirational Quotes (79)

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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion
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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Lust's passion will be served it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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